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Metaphor: Listening Time Is Money (p26)

1. Sam Brannan was one of the earliest and most successful businessmen during the California Gold Rush. He owned the only store between San Francisco and the gold fields and bought up all the picks, shovels, and pans, then sold them at hugely inflated prices to miners. 2. Within just nine weeks, Brannan made $36,000, becoming the first gold rush millionaire within a few years. However, he later lost his fortune and health to alcoholism and died in obscurity. 3. The passage discusses how Brannan keenly understood supply and demand and was able to corner the market and profit enormously during the chaotic early days of the gold rush, though his wealth and life were

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Metaphor: Listening Time Is Money (p26)

1. Sam Brannan was one of the earliest and most successful businessmen during the California Gold Rush. He owned the only store between San Francisco and the gold fields and bought up all the picks, shovels, and pans, then sold them at hugely inflated prices to miners. 2. Within just nine weeks, Brannan made $36,000, becoming the first gold rush millionaire within a few years. However, he later lost his fortune and health to alcoholism and died in obscurity. 3. The passage discusses how Brannan keenly understood supply and demand and was able to corner the market and profit enormously during the chaotic early days of the gold rush, though his wealth and life were

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Listening (p 25) Time is money (p26)

1 g 12 SB P 146
Students look at the pictures and captions. Establish that Metaphor
they are going to listen to the story of one of the first 1 Students look at the words in the box. Elicitwhat they all
people to make a fortune from the gold rush, Sam have in common.
Brannan. Play the recording.
Pairwork. Students discuss the significance of the pictures. They are all to do with water (specificallythe
movement of water).
During the gold rush, Sam Brannan had the only
store between Yerba Buena and the gold fields. He Before students tum to their dictionaries, encourage
bought up all the picks, shovels and prospecting anyone who knows any of the words to explain the
pans. Then he sold them to the Forty-Niners and meaning to the class. Make sure that everyone is quite
made a lot of money. In the end, though, he died of certain of the meanings before moving on to the
alcoholism. subsequent exercises.
2 If students are unfamiliar with the word metaphor, explain
that a metaphor is a way of describing something by
g 12 comparing it to something else that has similar qualities.
This comparison is made without using the words as or like
During the gold rush, Sam Brannan became one of
(when these words are used, we call the expression a
the most successful businessmen in California. He
simile). The words in the box in 1 all refer literally to the
arrived in California in 1846 with a group of two
movement of water but can be used metaphorically to
hundred Mormons who had left New York to
describe the movement of other things, for example people.
escape relígious persecution. They had mCJdethe
journey by sea, and on arrival in San Francisco (then Students use the words in 1 to complete the gaps.
called Yerba Buena) they had tripled the city's tiny Encourage them to do this without looking back at the text.
population. They can discuss it in pairs or groups if they wish. When
When gold was discovered on John. Sutter's land in they have finished, they can look back at the text to check
their answers.
1848, Sam Brannan owned the only store between
San Francisco and the gold fields. Quickly
recognising a gap in the market, he bought up all a) trickle, flood, deluge
the picks, shovels and pans he could find, and then b) drifted
ran up and down the streets of San Francisco c) streamed
shouting'Gold, gold on the Ametitan River!'
He had no intention of digging for gold! No, he
was planning to seli shovels. And having cornered 3 Go through the words in the box with the class, then
the market, he ended up with a lot more gold than students work individually to complete the gaps. Allow
the person who had to dig for it. them to compare answers with a partner but don't check
This was a man who keenly understood the laws of answers at this stage.
supply and demand. A metal pan that sald for 4 g 13 SB P 147
twenty cents a few days earlier, was now available
Play the recording for students to listen to and check their
from Brannan for fifteen dollars. In just nine weeks answers.
he made $36,000. He became the first gold rush
millionaire within a few years.
1 spare
ln the end, though, Sam Brannan lost his fortune
2 valuable
and his health, as did many of those who first
benefited from the gold rush. Alcoholism finally led 3 worth
to his downfall, and California's firstmillionaire died 4 wasting
an unnoticed death.
5 profitably
6 half-baked
2 Play the recording again. Students match the beginnings 7 chewing
andendings of the sentences. Play the recording again and 8 food
letstudents check their answers.
9 digest
a2 b4 c6 d3 e7 f5 9 1 10 running out
11 spend

Money u NIT 3 31

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